Re: correct plant names

**"Peter Loewer" t*@earthlink.net**

Rich: I said 25 years ago, give or take five years. Read it again. Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Pomerantz" <rich@richpomerantz.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 10:47 AM
Subject: [GWL] correct plant names


> Peter - five years ago? It's a bit older than that - I read in high 
> school (30 years ago!) many of your same complaints (ok maybe not the 
> movie star one) penned by a fellow named De Tocqueville in 1831!
> 
> Oh NO! You mean it's actually an essential part of being an American to 
> question authority!? egads! Let's pass a horticultural patriot act to 
> remedy this horror!Send the offenders off without a lawyer to Guantanamo!
> 
> Sorry for the thread drift, Lon, I couldn't resist. And for the record, 
> I always use the botanical name & try to educate others to do so (I am 
> not now nor have I ever been a member of.....)
> 
> Rich P.
> rich@richpomerantz.com
> www.richpomerantz.com
> 
> 
> <Once and for all: This nation is on a downward slope because about 25 
> years ago (give or take five years), the American zeitgeist (or whatever 
> passes for it) decided to go the politically correct route and at the 
> same time dumb down America! It is in everything we do from the time we 
> wake in the morning and turn on the news to the time we go to bed and 
> bid adieu to world events. Our politicians, our educators, our fellow 
> Americans have now decided that either the citizenry rejects education 
> or are not worthy of it. The Bohemian Class is now struggling to stay 
> afloat. There is a pronounced war on intellectuals, our movie stars are 
> basically grown children, our basic movies are produced for the age 
> group under 25, our TV newscasters spend more time on makeup than they 
> do on story preparations--need I go on?>
> 
> Best, Peter
> 
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